{"id":5739,"date":"2014-06-25T12:09:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/2014\/06\/25\/flashs-long-commute\/"},"modified":"2016-06-16T07:59:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T11:59:25","slug":"flashs-long-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=5739","title":{"rendered":"Flash&#8217;s Long Commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I&#8217;ve been thinking about my podcast and how I can make it interesting to people other than my circle of friends. And I wanted to avoid using the same bumpers and sound effects as everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Since I do most of my musings while on the train to or from work and its a long long commute by anyone&#8217;s standards I thought I would divide up my segments with train announcements. I&#8217;ve wanted to find a way to hide the hiss of the servers in my office where I record but the background tracks always seemed too distracting. So I decided to embrace the noise and break each segment up with announcements like the train guard does : &#8220;THe next station is Grately. Please mind the gap between the train and the edge.&#8221; That sort of thing. Then I had the idea of changing the entire theme and rationale for the podcast to one about long commutes. I even looked at grabbing the domain. thelongcommute.london . The Long Commute wasn&#8217;t taken but it was 36\u00a3. So that&#8217;s not happening. Also not happening. TLC.london. i might still get a podcast out with that name. Further checking came up with <a href=\"http:\/\/thelongcommute.com\/\">thelongcommute.com<\/a> which turns out to be a defunct website about&#8230;long commutes. A quick glance shows lots of articles about how long commutes are bad for you. Increase wrinkles and cause job dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>I am worried that if I go to iTunes and search for a podcast about commuting I&#8217;ll find this exact idea.<\/p>\n<p>Weelll why not do it anyway at least once. I&#8217;m hoping for a quiet day\/morning in my office so I hope I can get something recorded. Soon I&#8217;ll bring my mac laptop and run audacity to capture the whole trip. Evenings seem noisier. A lot of people are trying to sleep right now. I&#8217;m trying to stay creative.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll have a segment of the journey about my week. One about tech. One is just rants to grumpycast. I MUST SEND THAT OFF! And a section for people to call in or write me about their commutes or ask questions about living in London or the UK.<\/p>\n<p>A co host might be interesting but I&#8217;d like to do a call in show since I&#8217;m paying for a Skype number anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I know life gets in the way a lot so this might take some time. But its worth its own page on my blog.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. I&#8217;m feeling ready to look at iTunes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3MinWinEP00.mp3\">Three Minute Window Episode 00<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about my podcast and how I can make it interesting to people other than my circle of friends. And I wanted to avoid using the same bumpers and sound effects as everyone else. 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